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Difficulty: difficulty 1/5

GIMP version: 2.2

Category: Text effects

Author: devvv

Steps: 7

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Tutorial: Hot text on flames / fire

Written by devvv (15 Jun 2007 11:29 PM)

There are many ways to create fire text, but believe me, no other text is looking that cool and real as this one ;) Of course it maybe a lil' more effort to get it. I will show you how to create such a hot flames text with GIMP.

  1. Create a new File of any size. I chose 420 x 200px. As BG-Color choose black. Done so write some white text to a new layer (bold text, white color, size: 50).
    screenshot of step 1
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  2. Right click the text-layer in the layers dialog and choose "merge down". You should only have one single layer now.
    screenshot of step 2
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  3. Now, that we have all one one single layer, we create our flames. Use the Smear-Tool to do so and choose the values that are shown on the picture.
    screenshot of step 3
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  4. Zoom in to 200%. Now start at the first letter of your text: Hold down your left mouse button and smear around the border of this single letter to make it somehow gray as seen in the picture. It should look real so it must not be perfect. If you watch flames you will see the natural chaos ;)

    It is important to change the super white into gray tones.
    screenshot of step 4
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  5. After that make some flame-like movements to the top.
    screenshot of step 5
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  6. Let your creativity come out and do this with all the letters now.
    screenshot of step 6
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  7. Well, we are almost done already. Now we simply have to add the correct colors of fire.

    Choose Layer / Colors / Color Balance:

    Shadows
    ------------
    +100
    +30
    -30

    Midtones
    ------------
    +100
    +30
    -30

    Highlights
    ------------
    +100
    0
    -100
    screenshot of step 7
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria
This work is licensed under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Austria.

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From: LALALA (28 Jun 2008 11:46 PM)

AMAZINGGG TUTORIAL. thanks. :D

From: bAck (08 Jun 2008 06:33 PM)

thx, easy tut and nice made

From: debbie (17 May 2008 08:12 PM)

sexy

From: bob (16 Apr 2008 01:10 AM)

LOL another (FAST) way is just to download it from cooltext.com

From: cooool boy 23 (27 Mar 2008 04:25 PM)

this is qwesome

From: stingerman (13 Mar 2008 12:53 AM)

Awesome thanks for that!

From: Ynpfoi (02 Dec 2007 02:31 AM)

WOW!
This was so helpful!
Thank you for taking the time!

From: Adam_R (13 Sep 2007 02:09 AM)

Nice thanks for this

From: jay (31 Aug 2007 11:27 PM)

Excellent tutorial! Thank you very much.

Here are a few things that I did at the end to make the flames look even better (it may look like a lot of steps but they are all very simple):

1. In the layers dialog, click on the "New layer" button and select Layer fill type as White. Move this layer to the bottom.
2. Right click on the top layer and click on "Duplicate layer". Move the duplicate between the original and the white layers.
3. Select middle layer. Go to Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian blur. Choose IIR and set both Horizontal and Vertical blur to 15.
4. Select the top layer. Go to Layer -> Transparency -> Color to Alpha. Set black color to be converted to alpha. Repeat this for the middle layer.

At this point, the figure should appear like the letters have a glow around them and are on a white background.

5. Now select the bottom layer. Choose the Fill tool (Shift+B) and fill in the bottom layer with the color of your choice. I prefer a dark red color :)
6. You can also choose the middle layer and do Layer -> Colors -> Invert to get a cool blue glow around the flames!

From: Jon (11 Aug 2007 06:05 AM)

Yeah, that worked really well. Thanks! Something else you can do after making the flames is use the same smear tool on the bottom of the text with the rate setting at 100 to make it look like the letters are dripping/melted!

From: Chris_C (09 Aug 2007 10:21 PM)

Thanks so much for taking the time to make this!

From: razie92 (28 Jul 2007 10:09 AM)

Thanks for the tut! Now I can impress my friends lol

From: d0gzer0 (26 Jul 2007 07:27 PM)

Fantastic tutorial. Thank you very much!

From: Ruby (24 Jul 2007 08:33 PM)

Great tutorial, thanks!

From: Stick Slaughter (19 Jul 2007 06:25 PM)

This is extremely easy, and fun to make. This is an excellent tutorial.

From: Nano (12 Jul 2007 10:44 AM)

this tut is great simply amazing results

From: inam (29 Jun 2007 05:37 AM)

excellent and easier to follow for new users.
Thanks a lot.

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